The Pink Sox march onto the field, proudly displaying their artistic banner for all to see during PGSA's opening-day celebrations last weekend.

The Pink Sox march onto the field, proudly displaying their artistic banner for all to see during PGSA's opening-day celebrations last weekend.

Photo: Robert Avery

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Leaving the Tegeler Career Center parking lot and marching across Burke Road to Crenshaw Park, the Lady Hawks were ready to get their season going.

Leaving the Tegeler Career Center parking lot and marching across Burke Road to Crenshaw Park, the Lady Hawks were ready to get their season going.

Photo: Robert Avery

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PGSA rolls out the welcome mat for 2014 season

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The only unusual sight at last Saturday’s Pasadena Girls Softball Association’s opening-day festivities was the sight of little girls donning goggles and doing their part to make a wrecked car look even more wrecked.

Other than pretty girls bashing ugly-looking cars, the sights and sounds were the usual for a comfortable Saturday in March as the PGSA and its dozens of teams officially kicking off the 2014 season.

There was a fella helmet painting, there was the parade of team banners onto one of the organization’s four fields, there was the parade into Crenshaw Park, there was an assortment of games on another field, there was a photo booth so girls could put on oversized glasses and dress in silly attire, there were tons of barbecue sandwiches consumed and last but hardly least there was softball played by girls of all ages.

Once everyone assembled on the field, league officials named the top players who raised the most fundraising money. The final estimate was in the neighborhood of $34,000. That money will be going towards a batting cage that the league has wanted ever since it took root four years ago in Crenshaw Park.

Some players raised over a thousand dollars just by selling chocolate bars and other candy items.

From that parade of banners, judges were given the assignment of naming the two most eye-catching ones. The recipients of that honor went to the Hericanes and the Red Sox.

Once the day wore down, it was time to get down to serious business and that is to spend the next two months helping the young ladies become better softball players. In the process, it might fuel the desire to realize the dream of becoming a high school or college player.

And to think that dream might have started on a day reserved for season-opening silliness and celebrations.